Active Sphere
[Ronnie Dela Cruz]

Foundry in Valenzuela City, The Philippines. Their fonts include the geometric sans display families Kayla Sans (2008), Kathleen Sans and Serif (2008), Leenyx (2008), Sean Henrich ATF (2009), and Yarikha (2008), created by Ronnie Dela Cruz (b. 1963, Manila), a part-time freelance web and graphic designer. Stephanie (2008) and Zirphy (2008) are rounded geometric display fonts, and Kamaru (2008) is an experimental sans face. [Google]

AdamAnt VectorWorx (was: Toniofonts)
[Antonio Bucu]

Antonio Bucu [AdamAnt VectorWorx, The Philippines] designed EQUINOX, GraphicAttitudeMono (white on black lettering), INDIOSBRAVOSTITLING (great thick lettering), MachaCow, Maharlika (1998, elegant display type), Smokey, Tonio (comic book font), TONIO2, WaChaKa, WASTED. Working on Jetstream, Multo, Buchikick, Renaissance (an OCR font). [Google]

Alibata at Pandesal Outbox

Bisaya Script TTF Font (ancient Filipino script) and Bugis TTF Font. Both free. Page by Terrio Echavez. [Google]

Andrea Stuart

Designer located in Los Banos, Laguna, the Philippines, b. Manila, 1973. Creator of Andrea's Handwriting (2008), Stu Print (2009) and Stu Script (2009). [Google]

Angeline

Filipino designer. She is the creator of created Geline (2008, handwriting). [Google]

Annie de la Vega

Dead link. This was a Philippine site with original fonts for PC (truetype) by Annie de la Vega [the site used to be called MadCaps]: Annifont, Alcohole, Sira (1998, handwriting), Addict, Chibrush (oriental simulation face), Durian Republik, Happy, Illustrator, Balotro, Book-Illustrator'sHandwriting, Dooling-Bold, Marilen, MiddleEarthNF-Medium, Sira, Stinkin-BoopFont, UppenArmsNF-Medium, Walang-K, Jeepney and Teenick. Anni will make your handwriting into a font for a "minimal" fee. [Google]

Applied Language Solutions

Royalty-free fonts by language, posted by this company which has offices in the UK, the USA and Bulgaria: Afar, Afrikaans, Akan, Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Asian, Azeri, Basque, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Hausa, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kurdish, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Malay, Maltese, Maori, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Samoan, Scots, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Taiwanese, Turkish, Turkmen, Vietnamese, Welsh, Yoruba, Zulu, Breton, Cebuano, Esperanto, Frisian, Hawaiian, Occitan, Cyrillic, phonetic, Greek. The fonts: ALPHA-Demo, AcadHoCTT-regular, Albanian, ArialMT, Alice3Medium, ArialMT, ArialMT, AlternateGothicNo2BT-Regular, AntoniousJJencom, AntoniousNormal, AntoniousOLOverLine, ArTarumianBakhum, ArTarumianBarak, ArTarumianErevan, ArTarumianGrqiNor, ArTarumianGrqiNorBold, ArTarumianGrqiNorBoldItalik, ArTarumianGrqiNorItalic, ArTarumianHamagumar, ArTarumianHeghnar, ArTarumianKamar, ArTarumianMHarvats, ArTarumianMatenagir, ArTarumianMatenagirBold, ArTarumianMatenagirBoldItalic, ArTarumianMatenagirItalic, ArTarumianNorMatenagir, ArialMT, ArialMT, ArialNarrow-BoldItalic, ArialNarrow-Italic, ArialYktNormal, BPGClassicFM, BaltNewCenturySchoolbookMedium, BaltTiffanyMedium, BaskervilleLight, BernhardFashionBT-Regular, BodenEsperanto, BodenEsperantoKursiva, BookmanUralic, BookmanUralicBold, BookmanUralicItalic, BookvarBold, BookvarItalic, BookvarNormal, Brush445BT-Regular, Brush738BT-RegularA, BrushScriptBT-Regular, Bulgarian-Courier, Bulgarian-Garamond, Bulgarian-GaramondItalic, Bulgarian-Italic, Bulgarian-Kursiv, ChanceryUralicItalic, Chey1SILManuscriptL, CityD-Bold, CityD-Ligh, CityD-Medi, ClarendonBT-Black, ClarendonBT-Bold, ClarendonBT-BoldCondensed, ClarendonBT-Heavy, ClarendonBT-Light, ClarendonBT-Roman, ClarendonBT-RomanCondensed, CloisterBlackBT-Regular, CloisterOpenFaceBT-Regular, CopperplateGothicBT-Bold, CopperplateGothicBT-BoldCond, CopperplateGothicBT-Heavy, CopperplateGothicBT-Roman, CopperplateGothicBT-RomanCond, CourierNewPSMT, CrrCTT-Bold, CrrCTT-Regular, CyrCaucMedium, DoulosSIL, ER-Architect-866, ER-Architect-KOI-8, ER-Architect-Mac, ER-Architect1251, ER-Bukinist1251, ER-Bukinist1251Bold, ER-Bukinist1251BoldItalic, ER-Bukinist1251Italic, ER-BukinistMacBold, ER-BukinistMacBoldItalic, ER-BukinistMacItalic, ER-Kurier1251, ER-Kurier1251Bold, ER-Kurier1251BoldItalic, ER-Kurier1251Italic, ER-Kurier866, ER-Kurier866Bold, ER-Kurier866BoldItalic, ER-Kurier866Italic, ER-KurierKOI-8, ER-KurierKOI-8Bold, ER-KurierKOI-8BoldItalic, ER-KurierKOI-8Italic, ER-KurierMac, ER-KurierMacBold, ER-KurierMacBoldItalic, ER-KurierMacItalic, ERBukinistKOI8Bold, ERBukinistKOI8BoldItalic, ERBukinistKOI8Italic, ERBukinistKOI8Normal, ERThirdRomanKOI8Normal, ElroNet-Monospace, ElroNet-Proportional, English-Russian-Architect, English-Russian-Courier, EtTuBrute, FixedDBThaiText, FreeportPSMT, GadBold, GadLightNormal, GadNormal, GadThinNormal, Gremy-ITV, Guarani_Arial, Guarani_Roman, HTGGaramond, HalqemeylemSans, HalqemeylemSansBold, HalqemeylemSerif, HalqemeylemSerifBold, HellasCour-Bold, HellasCour-Regular, HellasFunBold, HellasFunCondensedBold, HellasFunCondensedPlain, HellasFunPlain, IPAPhonBold, IPAPhonItalic, IPAPhonRoman, InformCTT-Regular, Intone-dIntonSILDoulosLBoldItalic, Ipa-samdUclphon1SILDoulosL, Ipa-samdUclphon1SILDoulosLBold, Ipa-samdUclphon1SILDoulosLBoldItalic, Ipa-samdUclphon1SILDoulosLItalic, Ipa-sammUclphon1SILManuscriptL, Ipa-sammUclphon1SILManuscriptLBold, Ipa-sammUclphon1SILManuscriptLBoldItalic, Ipa-sammUclphon1SILManuscriptLItalic, Ipa-samsUclphon1SILSophiaL, Ipa-samsUclphon1SILSophiaLBold, Ipa-samsUclphon1SILSophiaLBoldItalic, Ipa-samsUclphon1SILSophiaLItalic, KOI8-Kurier, KurieroEsperantoDika, KurieroEsperantoDikaKursiva, KurieroEsperantoKursiva, KurieroEsperantoNormala, LangscapeDevPoojaBold, LangscapeDevPoojaNormal, LangscapeDevPriyaBold, LangscapeDevPriyaNormal, Lazurski-Bold, Lazurski-BoldItalic, LeedsBitEuroNorthNormal, LeedsCyrKoi81Normal, LeedsCyrKoi82Normal, LeedsCyrKoi83Normal, LeedsCyrKoi84Normal, LeedsCyrKoi85Normal, LucidaSansIPAText, MaltaardPSMT, MaltadelPSMT, MaltfrankGothicHeavyHE-BoldItalic, MaltfrankGothicHeavyHE, Metropol95, MonoUralic, NewtonCTT-Bold, NewtonCTT-BoldItalic, NewtonCTT-Italic, NewtonCTT-Regular, NoxchiArial, NoxchiArialBold, NoxchiCourierNew, NoxchiCourierNewBold, NoxchiTmsRomanBold, NoxchiTmsRomanNormal, OrionEsperantoDika, OrionEsperantoDikaKursiva, OrionEsperantoKursiva, OrionEsperantoNormala, Pakizy-ITV, Pakizy-ITVBold, Palatia-Regular, PalladioUralic, PalladioUralicBold, PalladioUralicItalic, PersianNimrooz, PragmaticaCTT-Bold, PragmaticaCTT-BoldItalic, PragmaticaCTT-Italic, PragmaticaCTT-Regular, Pravda, PravdaFixedPitch, PravdaItalic, RE_iNFOM-Kaveri, RomanUralic, RomanUralicBold, RomanUralicItalic, SILDaiBannaBookBold, SPAtlantis, SPAtlantisItalic, Sakatrvelo-ITV, Sakatrvelo-ITVItalic, SansCondensedUralic, SansCondensedUralicBold, SansUralic, SansUralicBold, SansUralicBoldItalic, SansUralicItalic, SchoolbookUralic, SchoolbookUralicBold, SchoolbookUralicItalic, Shemokhmedy-ITV, Tahoma, TempoEsperantoDika, TempoEsperantoDikaKursiva, TempoEsperantoKursiva, TempoEsperantoNormala, TempsEuro-CatalanPSMT, TimesNRCzech, TimesNewRoman, TimesNewRomanBold, TimesNewRomanBoldItalic, TimesNewRomanItalic, TimesNewRomanPSMT, TimokBold, TimokBoldItalic, TimokItalic, Tornado, Traditional-Arabic-Bold, Traditional-Arabic, TulasiNormal, VG2Main, VPS-Bac-Kan-Hoa, VPS-Bac-Kan, VPS-Can-Tho-Hoa, VPS-Can-Tho-Thuong, VPS-Con-Son-Bold-Italic, VPS-Con-Son-Hoa-Bold-Italic, VPS-Con-Son-Hoa-Italic, VPS-Con-Son-Hoa, VPS-Con-Son-Italic, VPS-Con-Son, VPS-Ha-Noi-Bold-Italic, VPS-Ha-Noi-Medium-Bold, VPS-Ha-Noi-Medium-Hoa-Bold-Italic, VPS-Ha-Noi-Medium-Hoa-Bold, VPS-Ha-Noi-Medium-Hoa-Italic, VPS-Ha-Noi-Medium-Hoa, VPS-Ha-Noi-Medium-Italic, VPS-Ha-Noi-Medium, VPS-Long-An-Bold, VPS-Long-An-Hoa-Bold, VPS-Long-An-hoa, VPS-Long-An, VPS-Long-Hai-Hoa, VPS-Long-Hai-Thuong, VPS-Pleiku-Bold-Italic-Hoa, VPS-Pleiku-Bold-Italic, VPS-Pleiku-Bold, VPS-Pleiku-Hoa-Bold, VPS-Pleiku-Hoa, VPS-Pleiku-Italic-Hoa, VPS-Pleiku-Italic, VPS-Pleiku, VPS-Quang-Duc-Bold-Italic, VPS-Quang-Duc-Bold, VPS-Quang-Duc-Hoa-Bold-Italic, VPS-Quang-Duc-Hoa-Bold, VPS-Quang-Duc-Hoa-Italic, VPS-Quang-Duc-Hoa, VPS-Quang-Duc-Italic, VPS-Quang-Duc, VPS-Tuyen-Duc-Hoa-Italic, VPS-Tuyen-Duc-Hoa, VPS-Tuyen-Duc-Italic, VPS-Tuyen-Duc, VPS-Vung-Tau-Bold, VPS-Vung-Tau-Hoa-Bold, VPS-Vung-Tau-Hoa-Italic, VPS-Vung-Tau-Hoa, VPS-Vung-Tau-Italic, VPS-Vung-Tau, VeraHumana95, VeraHumana95Bold, VeraHumana95BoldItalic, VeraHumana95Italic, ArialMT, XSerifOldRussian, ArialMT, muktinarrow, muktinarrowbold. [Google]

aRc (or: Azelea Rodgers Creations)
[Azelea Rodgers]

aRc was established in 2008 by Azelea Rodgers (b. 1974, The Philippines). It is located in Lathrop, CA. A graduate from Skyline College, she created the alphabet tracing font Kerp (2008) for kids in pre-kindergarten. She also made Rosebud (2008, letters composed of thorny rose stems), Asvet Mono (2009, a playful stencil), Azelea (2009) and Lelet Script (2009). [Google]

Baybayin Fonts
[Paul Morrow]

Paul Morrow's Baybayin fonts (for old Philippine languages) in truetype and type 1 forms: Tagalog Stylized (a modern composite of many samples from the past), Tagalog Doctrina 1593 (based on the type face used in one of the very first books printed in the Philippines, the Doctrina Christiana of 1593), Bisaya Hervas (based on a type face that appeared in 1787 in an Italian work by Lorenzo Hervás y Pandura, Saggio prattico delle lingue con prolegomeni e una raccolta di Orazioni Domincale in più di trecento lingue e dialetti), Bikol Mintz (modelled after the cover art on the 1985 New Day Publishers edition of the Bikol-English Dictionary by Malcolm Warren Mintz & José Del Rosario Britanico), and Baybayin Lopez (2002), based on the typeface that Francisco Lopez used in the Ilokano Doctrina Christiana (1621). Alternate URL. [Google]

Boying Opaw

Filippino Linabo-based designer (b. 1986) of the free techno fonts Tek (2008) and Scout (2008). Blog. [Google]

Buhid alphabet

"The Buhid or Mangyan alphabet is thought to have descended from the Kawi script of Java, Bali and Sumatra, which in turn descended from the Pallava script, one of the southern Indian scripts derived from Brahmi. The Buhid alphabet is still used in the Philipines by the Buhid people of Mindoro." This syllabic alphabet is used to write Tagalog, the national language of the Philipines which is spoken by about 10.5 million people. [Google]

CheapProfonts
[Roger S. Nelsson]

Started in 2008, this web place by Norwegian entrepreneur Roger S. Nelsson (based in Honningsvåg) sells fonts by Ray Larabie, Brian Kent, Nick Curtis, Derek Vogelpohl and Kevin King that were originally freeware fonts. Nelsson reworked them (more glyphs, more multilingual) and asks about 10 dollars per font now. He says his fonts now cover these Latin languages: Afrikaans, Albanian, Basque, Belarusian (Lacinka), Bosnian, Breton, Catalan, Chamorro, Chichewa, Cornish, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Filipino (Tagalog), Finnish, French, Frisian, Galican, German, Greenlandic, Guarani, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish (Gaelic), Italian, Kashubian, Kurdish (Kurmanji), Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgian, Malagasy, Maltese, Maori, Northern Sotho, Norwegian, Occitan, Polish, Portuguese, Rhaeto-Romance, Romanian, Saami (Inari), Saami (Lule), Saami (North), Saami (South), Scots (Gaelic), Serbian (latin), Slovak(ian), Slovene, Sorbian (Lower), Sorbian (Upper), Spanish, Swedish, Tswana, Turkish, Turkmen, Ulithian, Walloon, Welsh, Yapese. Designer at FontStruct in 2008 of cowboy_hippie and Syndrome X (DNA-look face inspired by Syndrome BRK by Brian Kent). Nelsson's fonts are Classic Trash BRK Pro, Dynamic BRK Pro, Galapogos BRK Pro, Genotype BRK Pro, King Cool KC Pro (kid's hand; done with Kimberly Geswein), Lamebrain BRK Pro, Matrise Pro and Matrise Text Pro (dot matrix), Phorfeit BRK Pro, Syndrome BRK Pro, Technique BRK Pro, Vigilance BRK Pro, Grapple BRK Pro. The "BRK" refers to Brian Kent, the original free font designer. In 2009, he added a number of fonts that were done by Nick Curtis some years before that (hence the "NF"): Boogie Nights NF Pro (art deco face ), Copasetic NF Pro, Coventry Garden NF Pro, Pro, Fontleroy NF Pro, Hamburger Heaven NF Pro, Monterey Popsicle NF Pro, and Wooden Nickel NF Pro. Trypewriter Pro (2009) is based on Kevin King's Trypewriter. Helldorado Pro (2009) is a Tuscan wood type style face based on a font by Levente Halmos. Designer of Trump Town Pro (2009, athletic lettering slab serif), Geometric Soft Pro (2009), and Cheap Pro Fonts Serif (2009), freely available from Dafont. [Google]

Denise Lara Kamille K. Bentulan

Digital artist from Quezon City, The Philippines, b. 1991. Creator of the handprinted fonts Denne Fuchoor (2009), Denne Sketchy (2009), Denne's aliens (2009), Denne Schoolgirl (2009), Denne's Chokipi (2009), Pretty Shit (2009, dingbats), Denne's Summer (2009), Denne's Pen (2009), Crown Doodle (2009), DENNECURSIVE (2009), DENNELEFT-HAND (2009), Denne-Delica (2009), DenneMarker (2009), DennePuffy-Hearts (2008, marker pen), DenneThreedee (2008, marker pen), Denne's Aliens (2009), and Denne'sOldHandwriting (2009), 2006 (based on the Welcome font by Whitestone which was used in the Fifa World Cup in 2006). Home page. Dafont link. [Google]

Emmanuel Garcia

Makati City, The Philippines-based creator (b. 1978) of MKF Tiler (2008, kitchen tile face). [Google]

Ezak Ecnal

Antipolo, Philippines-based creator (b. 1987) of Melnics (2005), a font for the game Tales of Destiny 2. [Google]

Frederick Victor Paredes An

Filipino creator of Guhit Baybayin (2009). [Google]

Gpotious

Designer from The Philippines. She created the handwriting fonts Vanamare (2009), Quest of Lies (2009), Lehova (2009, straight vertical handprinted), Poisoned Tea (2009), Nuajas (2009), Nitalus (2008), Penspire (2008), Exochronia (2007) and Altonin (2006). [Google]

Hanuno'o alphabet

Simon Ager's page on the Hanuno'o or Mangyan alphabet used to write Hanuno'o, Austronesian language spoken in the southern part of the Philippine island of Mindoro by about 10,000 to 12,000 people. It is syllabic and written from bottom left to top right. [Google]

iColony.ph

Philippine archive. Baybayin subarchive. Has the oriental simulation font Fu Manchu. [Google]

Ilocano Baybayin

Samples of Baybayin and Ilocano scripts. Some links to fonts. [Google]

James Fajardo (was: Yakap.com)
[James Paul Fajardo]

James Paul Fajardo's (mainly handwriting) fonts were at Yakop.com. It is now called James Fajardo, but the web pages are faulty. James was born inn The Philippines in 1983, but lives in Las Vegas, NV. On Typophile, he visits as James F. His fonts include James Fajardo (2003, handwriting), Alanis Hand (2003, handwriting of Alanis Morrisette), Suwa (2003), Jempol, IBAYO, Sulatko, TheMoment, Yakap, Sixdaggers, AlbummeSmooth (2003), Ibayo (2003), Jempolfreak (2003), Gyllenhaal (pixel font for 8pt). Alternate URL. Still another URL. Yet another URL. In 2007, he set up the commercial Fajardo Font Foundry. It sells Nanette (2008, cursive script). [Google]

Joel Ignacio

Fonts by Joel Ignacio (b. Santa Ana, Manila, Philippines, 1971), who studied computer science and math at UC Davis and now lives in the Bay Area. They include the graffiti font Chrytings, plus Neumicals (1992, grunge), Cathophy (handwriting), Anther (1989), Anther Spin, Zotus (1990), and Ayger. The site used to be called iG.world. He runs Ignacio Design. [Google]

Joey Perez

Bacolod, The Philippines-based creator (b. 1988) of the irregular handwriting font joeytisoy (2007). [Google]

Kristel Ann "Kazaki" A. Cuadra

Filipino creator (b. 1991) of Ancience (2009, handprinted). [Google]

Living Scripts of the Philippines
[Hector Santos]

"Fonts for the Buhid, Hanunóo, and Tagbanwa scripts still used in the Philippines are available.": 25USD for six fonts in any format you like. Send check to Sushi Dog Graphics, P.O. Box 26A54, Los Angeles, CA 90026. Page by Hector Santos. [Google]

Norman de los Santos

Designer in Southern California (b. 1971). Creator of free Baybayin fonts (for Philippine) in 2006, downloadable from Devian Tart: BaybayinModernBlock, BaybayinModernScript, BaybayinModernPrint, BaybayinModernRound, Baybayin Modern Kufic. [Google]

Philippine Scripts

Carl Rubino's page on Philippine scripts: The Ilocanos, Tagalogs, Pangasinenses, Visayans, and Kapampangans on Luzon Island shared a similar syllabary, composed of 16 characters, used in the Tagalog and Ilocano scripts. The Mangyans (of Mindoro Island) and the Tagbanuas (of Palawan Island) had very different scripts. No fonts here, but plenty of information and examples. [Google]

Quikijiki Maiquez

Philippines-based illustrator. He created qxdigitalninja (2008, techno, futuristic) and We_Wabbits_quikijiki (2008, alphadings). Home page. [Google]

Quix Maiquez

Illustrator from the Philippines. Home page. Behance link. Creator in 2008-2009 of the techno fonts Amputa and qx_01, and the playful We_Wabbits_quikijiki. [Google]

Samuel Thibault

Designer of Tagbanwa (2007), a free font for a Philippine script Tagbanwa. [Google]

Sushi Dog Graphics
[Hector Santos]

Los Angeles foundry of Hector Santos, who created commercial fonts for Tagalog, Buhid, Hanunuo'o and Tagbánuwá. Baybayin is the name of the former Filipino writing system. Today there are three forms of the baybayin still being used in the Philippines. These are the scripts of the Buhid and Hanunuo'o peoples of Mindoro and the Tagbánuwá people of Palawan. [Google]

Tagalog alphabet

Simon Ager's page on Tagalog, a syllabic alphabet used to write Tagalog (Filipino, or Pilipino), an Austronesian language with about 15 million speakers in the Philippines, the USA, Canada, the UAE, Guam, the UK, Saudi Arabia and many other places. [Google]

Tagalog Script
[Hector Santos]

Tagalog Script (from the Philippines): 20USD for six fonts in any format you like. Send check to Sushi Dog Graphics, P.O. Box 26A54, Los Angeles, CA 90026. Page by Hector Santos who lives in Los Angeles. [Google]

Toto

Filipino designer of Art Jam MakingFaces (2003, a great dingbat font based on designs found in Image Club Graphics' volume 30, called Art Jam), Town Sketches Bandstand (2003, based on volume 35 (Sketches On The Town)), Nabel Initials (2005, based on Marwan Aridi's Nabel from the Initial Caps Vol I), Anabel (2005, a simpler version of Nabel Initials), Solo Ornaments (2003, based on Solo's books), k22 You Know Who (2004, dingbats based on Dark Mark from the Harry Potter books), Gidget Cameo (2004), Blister Caps (2005, based on the Blister set from the Aridi Initial Caps Vol. 1), k22 Xerxes (2003, a stone carving typeface), RegalAlt, RegalInitials (2005, based on the Regal set from the Aridi Initial Caps Vol. I), SpringAlt, SpringInitials (2005, based on the Spring set from the Aridi Initial Caps Vol. I), VictorianaAlt, VictorianaInitials (2005, based on the Victoriana set from the Aridi Initial Caps Vol. III), Tiscan Initials (2005, based on more of Marwan Aridi's alphabets), Napoli Initials (2009, more Aridi capitals), Gothic Initials (2009, Aridi-based), Romant Initials (2009, Aridi-based), Royal Initials (2009, aridi-based), Stone Initials (2009, also based on Aridi), Dover Birds (based on the Birds Alphabet Coloring Book by Ruth Soffer, Dover Publications). Alternate URL. [Google]